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Hiram Baker (seasons 1–9, three post-series movies) Bonnie Bartlett as Grace Snider Edwards (seasons 1–3, guest in 6).Edwards (seasons 1–3, guest in 6, 8–9, three post-series movies) Jonathan Gilbert as Willie Oleson (seasons 1–9, two post-series movies).Alison Arngrim as Nellie Oleson Dalton (seasons 1–7, guest in 9).Katherine MacGregor as Harriet Oleson (seasons 1–9).Richard Bull as Nels Oleson (seasons 1–9, three post-series movies).Matthew Labyorteaux as young Charles Ingalls and Albert (Quinn) Ingalls (seasons 5–8, guest in 9, one post-series movie).Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush as Carrie Ingalls (seasons 1–8).Melissa Sue Anderson as Mary Ingalls Kendall (seasons 1–7, guest in 8).

Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls Wilder (seasons 1–9, three post-series movies).Karen Grassle as Caroline Quiner Ingalls (seasons 1–8, one post-series movie).Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls (seasons 1–8, guest in 9, two post-series movies).Michael Landon appeared in all but four episodes of seasons one through eight, but departed from being a regular part of the cast when the show was retooled as Little House: A New Beginning (season nine). Melissa Gilbert has the most appearances of the series, a total of 190 of the 204 episodes. Main article: List of Little House on the Prairie characters The rest of the regular series premiered on the NBC network on September 11, 1974, and last aired on May 10, 1982.ĭuring the 1982–83 television season, with the departure of Landon and Grassle, a sequel series, generally considered Season Nine for syndicated packages, was broadcast with the new title Little House: A New Beginning.Ĭast and characters Laura Ingalls (played by Melissa Gilbert) with her dog Jack (played by Barney), 1975 The pilot, which first aired on March 30, 1974, was based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's third Little House book, Little House on the Prairie. Friendly then asked Michael Landon to direct the pilot Landon agreed on the condition that he may also play Charles Ingalls.

In 1972, with the encouragement of his wife and daughter, television producer and former NBC executive Ed Friendly acquired the film and television rights to Wilder’s novels from Roger Lea MacBride and engaged Blanche Hanalis to write the teleplay for a two-hour motion picture pilot. The show is an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books. Charles, Laura, Caroline, Mary, and Carrie Ingalls are respectively portrayed by Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, and twins Lindsay and Sydney Greenbush. Little House on the Prairie ( Little House: A New Beginning in its ninth and final season) is an American Western historical drama television series about the Ingalls family, who live on a farm on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s–90s.